The defendant erected a sign which extended some 8ft into the plaintiff’s property.
Held: The plaintiff was entitled to a mandatory injunction requiring the defendant to remove the sign. The intrusion was a trespass.
Citations:
[1957] 2 QB 344
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Bernstein of Leigh (Baron) v Skyviews and General Ltd QBD 9-Feb-1977
The plaintiff complained that the defendant had flown over his and neighbouring properties and taken aerial photographs, and said that this was a gross invasion of his privacy, and that the defendant had invaded his airspace to do so. The plaintiff . .
Cited – Star Energy Weald Basin Ltd and Another v Bocardo Sa SC 28-Jul-2010
The defendant had obtained a licence to extract oil from its land. In order to do so it had to drill out and deep under the Bocardo’s land. No damage at all was caused to B’s land at or near the surface. B claimed in trespass for damages. It now . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Torts – Other, Land
Updated: 13 July 2022; Ref: scu.183334
